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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... day and we mused about how we'll never get a normal moveout. Last year ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  relativity to tell how modern the ideas in the course description are, but 8 ... descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... , in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘17 You are sitting in the courtyard. You check your email. New email to ... smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... you to get to the food in time. When you reach the student center

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... sent to several sororities, telling them about a new contest that ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  took the elevator to the new room, which is in 5 East. It’s a rather ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  others in my new social circles because they considered themselves to be ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  . In its place came guilt, guilt about how I related to the rest of my ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... people vary in how vivid their visual imaginations are, with some seeing it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... the MIT bubble. People flock to San Francisco or stay in Cambridge and ... organizational snafus. I told myself I was trying to jump back in to school too

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... have in the comments about being premed and I will get back to you. :) ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... -stomach feelings I get when it gets bad in response to these imaginary threats my ... going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022